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11-19-2013, 02:21 PM
Google Asks Users to Disable Ad Blocking for Its Sites
It looks like Google started to show warnings if you use AdBlock (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdBlock_%28Chrome%29) or AdBlock Plus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adblock_Plus), the most popular ad blockers (they have more than 50 million users). A reader from Brazil **ticed this message: "Oh **, it seems like you are blocking Google's ads. These ads pay for Google products that people use every day. It's easy to deactivate ad blocking just for Google. And it won't change your ad blocking settings or other settings".
The message links to a filter (https://www.google.com/ad/filter/google-abp.txt) that includes a long list of exceptions like "@@||www.google.com^$document" and "@@||maps.google.com^$document".
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fxq9OC1HSGg/Uos47nL88EI/AAAAAAABNyc/Kvqezm88CmQ/s1600/google-adblock.png
Here's a screenshot of the Google whitelist filter (it actually includes more domains):
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vRxTpS57MEA/Uos-uyT_e4I/AAAAAAABNys/FBtFpVe0VWs/s1600/google-adblock-filter.png
This is pretty weird, considering that the ads were **t blocked, as you can see in the screenshot. Google ads are **t blocked by default in AdBlock Plus, since they're considered "acceptable ads (https://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads)". Some sites have speculated that Google paid AdBlock Plus (http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/5/4496852/adblock-plus-eye-google-whitelist) to whitelist its ads, but that's **t very clear.
Google Discovery also reported about this back in May (http://googlediscovery.com/2013/05/15/google-pede-que-usuarios-liberem-a-exibicao-de-seus-anuncios/), so it looks like the experiment is limited to Google Brazil, at least for **w.
{ Thanks, Marcos Alexandre. }http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GoogleOperatingSystem/~4/7rUDboIpd-c
It looks like Google started to show warnings if you use AdBlock (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdBlock_%28Chrome%29) or AdBlock Plus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adblock_Plus), the most popular ad blockers (they have more than 50 million users). A reader from Brazil **ticed this message: "Oh **, it seems like you are blocking Google's ads. These ads pay for Google products that people use every day. It's easy to deactivate ad blocking just for Google. And it won't change your ad blocking settings or other settings".
The message links to a filter (https://www.google.com/ad/filter/google-abp.txt) that includes a long list of exceptions like "@@||www.google.com^$document" and "@@||maps.google.com^$document".
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fxq9OC1HSGg/Uos47nL88EI/AAAAAAABNyc/Kvqezm88CmQ/s1600/google-adblock.png
Here's a screenshot of the Google whitelist filter (it actually includes more domains):
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vRxTpS57MEA/Uos-uyT_e4I/AAAAAAABNys/FBtFpVe0VWs/s1600/google-adblock-filter.png
This is pretty weird, considering that the ads were **t blocked, as you can see in the screenshot. Google ads are **t blocked by default in AdBlock Plus, since they're considered "acceptable ads (https://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads)". Some sites have speculated that Google paid AdBlock Plus (http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/5/4496852/adblock-plus-eye-google-whitelist) to whitelist its ads, but that's **t very clear.
Google Discovery also reported about this back in May (http://googlediscovery.com/2013/05/15/google-pede-que-usuarios-liberem-a-exibicao-de-seus-anuncios/), so it looks like the experiment is limited to Google Brazil, at least for **w.
{ Thanks, Marcos Alexandre. }http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GoogleOperatingSystem/~4/7rUDboIpd-c